Nutrition Experts Got Together And Ranked The Best Diets Of 2017 — Here Are The Top 12

No. 8 (TIE): Volumetrics diet

Volumetrics is a diet developed by Penn State University nutrition professor Barbara Rolls. It categorizes foods based on density, with less dense foods — like soups or vegetables high in water — preferred over pizza, cookies, and butter.

No. 8 (TIE): Fertility diet

The aim of the fertility diet is to help women who are having problems getting pregnant. Developed by Drs. Jorge Chavarro and Walter Willett of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the fertility diet includes 10 science-backed steps to help boost fertility in women. The steps emphasize eating vegetable proteins and oils and drinking a glass of whole milk. The plan also suggests taking a multivitamin that contains folic acid.

No. 4 (TIE): Weight Watchers diet

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Weight Watchers rose through the US News & World Report's rankings in 2017 because of the company's switch to its Beyond the Scale program.

"The way we think about it is that we used to have a very narrow focus on weight, and now weight is one of things we focus on but it's not the only thing," Gary Foster, Weight Watchers' chief scientific officer, told Time magazine in late 2015. "The consumer sentiment is, 'I still want to lose weight, but I'm thinking about in a more holistic way."

Weight Watchers still uses its signature points system.

The Weight Watchers diet also ranked as the best diet for weight loss.

No. 4 (TIE): TLC diet

The TLC diet, which stands for therapeutic lifestyle changes, is all about lowering cholesterol above all else. It emphasizes eating less food with saturated fat — like chicken with the skin on it, butter, and cheese — while eating more fruits, vegetables, skinless chicken, fish, and low-fat dairy products.